Pump attachment for windmills



U YODER PUMP ATTACHMENT FOR WINDMILLS.

Patented Feb. 24,1891.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

URIEL YO'DER, OF NEAR WEST LIBERTY, OHIO.

PUMP ATTACHMENT FOR WINDMILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,096, dated February 24, 1891-.

Application filed October 11, 1890. Serial No. 367 ,776. (No model.)

To tZZ whom if may concern:

Be it known that I, URIEL YODEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of near West Liberty, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Pump Attachment to Windmills, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in pump attachments to windmills.

Figure l is a frontview; Fig. 2, a side sectional view.

In the usual inode of attaching the suckerrod of a pump to the shaft of a windmill a loose pin is put through a hole in the top of the sucker-rod and bottom of the shaft and fastened in place by runningapiece of leather orawedge through a hole in the end of the pin. This is both inconvenient and insecure, and a person is often at considerable trouble titting the pin in the two holes. To obviate this and render the attachment secure, I provide a hollow cast piece B, say a little over a foot long, having a hole in the top for permanent attachment by meansof bolt N to the shaft of the windmill. On the outside of piece B is` bolted a spring D, carrying at its free end a jointed pin H, that plays freely in a hole S in the sucker-rod and holes Q R in the bottom end of piece B. On one side of the piece B, near the bottom but above the pin H, are two lugs I, in which is journaled the cam-piece L. The shaft O has lever K secured on one end. The pin H is threaded at one end, and has a shoulder near the end. It is attached to the spring D by inserting the threaded end through an opening in said spring andagainst the shoulder, and screwing a nut'on the end of the piu.

The operation is as follows: WVheu it is desired to let the pump rest, the lever K is thrown around in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that the cam-piece L will force the spring out from the side of the piece B and withdraw the pin H, so that its inner end will just rest in one hole in the side of the piece B. rllhe piece B is then free to work up and down on the sucker-rod C without operating it. When itis wished to run the pump, the handle K is thrown around in position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, when the cam-piece L is brought into a vertical position and the spring D pushes the pin H through the hole in the top of the sucker-rod C and through the hole Vin the outer face of piece B, securely locking the sucker-rod and shaft together. The cam-piece L is limited in its upward movement by the stop M on the inside of the spring D.

l. Inanattachmentforcouplingthesuckerrod of a pump and the shaft of a'windmill, the piece B, the spring` D, pin H, the campiece L. and lever K, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The attaching-piece B, theI spring D, the jointed pin H, playing through holes Q R S in piece B and sucker-rod C, the cam-piece L,

and lever K, as andy for the purpose set forth.

URIEL YODER. Witnesses:

E. M. CAMPBELL, NED CAMPBELL. 

